Bellefonte, Pa., March 22, 1907.
Beat Her With Whip Because She
Defended White,
THE TRIAL NEARING AN END
New York, March 19.—Four more
experts are to be examined in the
Thaw trial and the taking of evidence
will close. Three experts were dispos-
ed of in a little more than an hour, so
it is generally believed that the last
word of evidence may be uttered in the
famous case today (Tuesday). In that
event the summing up by Mr. Delmas
for the defense will begin Wednesday
morning. District Attorney Jerome
will reply on Thursday. Justice Fitz-
gerald may proceed immediately with
his charge to the jury or he may defer
it until Friday. Unless the unexpect-
ed happens there should be a verdict
by Friday night.
The case for the people was finally
closed by the introduction of the much
discussed Hummel affidavit, which,
with the consent of the defense, was
read in full to the jury. The affidavit
proved a surprise only in the alleged
severity of the assaults Harry K.
Thaw is said to have made upon Eve-
lyn Nesbit during their trip through
Europe in 1903, when, according to the
testimony of Abraham Hummel, Miss
Nesbit would not sign statements
which Thaw had prepared accusing
Stanford White of having drugged and
ruined her.
In this affidavit Miss Nesbit charged
Thaw with having attacked her with
a cowhide whip while they were stop-
ping at an old castle in the Austrian
Tyrol and lashing her bare skin until
she became faint from the pain and
swooned. He repeated the attack the
next day, according to the affidavit,
and afterward in Paris he beat her at
half hour intervals throughout one
entire day, leaving off only when she
would faint away and could no longer
understand what was happening. Miss
Nesbit is alleged to have sworn in the
affidavit that she was in daily fear for
her life and that Thaw acted as a de-
mented person during some of the as-
saults
The aflidavit was in some ways a di-
rect contradiction of Hummels re-
cent testimony upon the stand. In or
der that the defense might not prevent
him from teiling the story of the mak-
ing of the affidavit he stated positive-
ly that he was not acting as Miss Nes-
bit’s attorney when he drew up the
document; that he was acting solely
in the interest of Stanford White and
that no legal action was contemplated
in behalf of the young woman who is
now Harry Thaw's wife.
There was considerable surprise
consequently when Mr. Jerome read
the opening words of the affidavit,
which were:
“Supreme Court.
York:
“Ivelyn Nesbit, plaintiff, against
Harry Kendall Thaw, defendant.”
It 1s said the action contemplated
when the afiidavit was made was the
recovery of certain property which it
was alleged Thaw had wrongfully tak-
‘en {rom the girl. In dictating the affi-
. davit Hummel referred to himself as
Miss Nesbit's attorney, she being re
ported tc have said:
“I have received certain letters and
cablegrams from Thaw which I have
turned over to my attorney, Abraham
H. Hummel.”
The affidavit is also endorsed “Howe
and Hummel, attorney for plaintiff.”
When Mr. Delmas began the intro-
duction of testimony in sur-rebuttal
he introduced first of all the record in
the trial and conviction of Hummel
on the charge of conspiracy. He start-
ed to read the entire record, but had
not reached the remarks of Mr. Je-
rome made at the sentencing of Hum-
mel and which Mr. Delmas wanted to
present to the jury, when Mr. Jerome
said Lie would admit the entire record
‘without objection. Mr. Delmas then
said he would save the district attor-
ney’s reference to Hummel for the
defense’s summing up.
Next Mr. Delmas put upon the stand
three policemen who saw Thaw the
night of the tragedy or early in the
merning after and they all declared
that he either looked or acted irra-
tionally. To two of them he complain-
ed of hearing young girls’ voices. The
witnesses admitted on cross examina-
tion that there were seven women ol
the street in the station house the
night Thaw was there and that they
were making considerable noise, but
could not be heard from Thaw's cell.
After this testimony had been pre-
sented Mr. Delmas passed to the final
stages of the trial by introducing the
first of seven alienists employed by the
defense, three of the experts being
new to the case. Dr. Graeme M. Ham-
mond and Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, who
have been in the case from the first,
and Dr. W. A. White, superintendent
of the government hospital for the in-
sane at Washington, D. C., were the
witnesses and all were interrogated
on the hypothetical question framed
by the district attorney. All three of
the experts declared Thaw was so
mentally unbalanced at the time he
killed Stanford White that he did not
know the nature or qualiity of his act
and did not know that the act was
wrong. None of the three would class.
ify the form of insanity from which
they said the defendant was suffering.
County of New
Missouri to Knock Out Bucket Shops.
Jefferson City, Mo., March 16.—The
house passed a bill making the oper-
ation of a bucket shop a felony. The
maximum punishment for violation {is
from two to five years in the peniten-
tiary. The bill now goes to Governor
Folk.
AN RON SKYSCRAPER,
Marvelous Method In Rearing the
Towering Structure.
MAGIC OF ITS MECHANISM.
The Building of It Is Akin to the Put-
ting Together of a Modern American
Watch—S8imply a Matter of Assem-
bling the Various “Members.”
On the twentieth floor of a towering
office building in lower New York a
young man sat at a roll top desk talk-
ing into a telephone. He was a clean
shaven, clean collared young man, with
gray eyes aad a cool, dry, even voice.
It was a sunny office, with an admira-
ble rug on its oaken floor, and from its
windows you could see over into New
Jersey. The young man at the desk
was the general superintendent of a
company which builds “skyscrapers,”
and he was performing the functions
of his office,
“What report on those I beams?’ he
was asking. There was some reply.
“How many men have you?’ he in-
quired and then presently remarked:
“Well, make it 610.” Then he turned
to the reporter who had come to ask
him how big buildings are erected.
But the telephone claimed him again,
and again he asked:
“What report?’ and to the reply an-
nounced:
“The masous must catch up by
Wednesday. This is final. Goodby.”
He turned again to the reporter, and
the reporter asked:
“How do you put up a skyscraper?”
The cool, clean faced superintendent
looked ucross to New Jersey for a sec-
ond and said:
“The building of an iron constructed
skyscraper is a huge counterpart of the
building of a modern American watch.
It is simply a matter of assembling
the parts—the ‘members,’ we call them.
The fact is that little of the real work
is done on the site of the building at
all, as In the old days of stone con-
struction. Broadly speaking, the dig-
ging of the cellar and the sinking of
calssons in order to lay a bd for the
ironwork comprise’ most of the engi-
neering done on the spot. The rest we
do in the office.”
“What is the advantage of iron con-
struction, aside from its having made
the skyscraper possible? Is it stron-
ger?”
“No; it's cheaper.”
“But you have to use stone anyway.
One would think that the added ex-
pemse of the ironwork, say, on a com-
paratively small building would in-
crease the cost.”
“It isn't material that costs — it's
time. You see, in putting up an iron
construction building everybody can
work at once—excavators, draftsmen,
rolling mills, Ironworkers, masons,
plumbers, finishers and all. Suppose
you come here and tell us you want to
spend $10,000,000 on a building to take
the place of a big stone hotel. To as-
certain the shape and dimensions of
the lot is of course easy. This done,
we turn the diagram over to an archi-
tect. He does the aesthetic part of
the work, and we don’t bother much
with him after we get his ground and
side elevations, though of course we
keep in close practical touch with him.
Well, now, as soon as we close the
deal with you—not a week afterward,
but the very next day—we are tearing
down the old building, the architect is
roughing out his floor plans, and we
are figuring, with your assistance, how
much weight each floor will have to
carry. And all the while this is being
done our superintendents are arranging
for caisson men, Ironworkers, masons
and all the rest of the labor. At the
same time our foundrymen and quarry-
men are planning to be in readiness to
ship material when it is needed. In
fact, everything moves forward simul-
taneously.”
“What is the first step of actual con-
struction?”
“To get the architect's finished
ground plan away from him. He dear-
ly loves continually to make changes
in that end of the work. As soon as we
have the ground plan we can tell by
the shape of the future building just
where the uprights are to go and so
where we shall have to sink our cals-
sons. Meantime we have found what
‘load’ each upright will have to carry
and thus knew the sort of foundation
and structure each will require. By
the time we get the final ground plan
the excavation is so well under way
that caisson work may begin, and we
can also set our draftsmen to making
detail sketches for the guidance of the
rolling mill man. This is whit I meant
by saying that the real construction of
a modern big building is done in the
office. We make a drawing of every
beam, girder and upright to be used,
with every dimension calculated to the
sixteenth of an inch and every rivet
hole indicated as to place and size to a
nicety. There is a separate drawing
for each one of these ‘members,’ and
each is numbered. The drawings are
sent to the rolling mill and there repro-
duced in steel. When a member is
shipped from the rolling mill it is num-
bered to correspond with the drawing.
“For instance, we want a beam with
a cross section like the Roman letter I
twelve feet long and thirty inches
avide. It is to be three and a half inch-
‘es thick, and the flanges are to be sev-
en-eighths of an inch thick and eight
inches wide. It is to have a transverse
brace supported by L shaped brackets
three inches each way, and the rivet
holes are to be in the places indicated
and are to be three-quarters of an inch
in diameter. When shipped to us the
beam is to be marked M 4, 114”
“That shows were it goes in the
building, or course,” ventured the re-
porter, with a gleam of intelligence.
“Exactly. We work by floors. For
each floor we make a ground plan
showing the position of every bit of
ironwork, with each bit numbered.
Now, when that beam comes to us
numbered M 4, 114, we look at the M
ground plan, find member 114, and
that's where the beam goes.”
“And ‘M'—how about ‘M7? "”
“That shows the floor. We number
the members and letter the floors, so
that M means the thirteenth floor.”
The reporter was about to comment
frivolously on the regrettably small
number of letters in the alphabet and
its effect on the future of tall build-
ings, but the superintendent continued:
“So far the system seems perhaps
comparatively simple, but it is when
we come to consider the aesthetic va-
garies in the way of outside stonework
which the architect's sensitive soul
demands that many complex problems
have to be solved. It is when we are
confronted with turrets, towers, bal
conies and bow windows and gargoyles
and ponderous copings and cornices
that delicate figuring must come into
play. While it Is easy enough to cal
culate the weight of the sheer walls—
the uniform blocks of stone between
stories—the carved stones forming or-
nate projections must be considered
individually, so that each will rest up-
on ironwork of proper strength to sus-
tain it and of proper construction to
hold it in place, and this, too, must én-
ter into the computation of the load to
be carried on its particular floor. In
this way many iron members will en-
ter into the support of a single stone
whose only use is to satisfy the artistic
cravings of the architect.”
“Why is it that one often sees the
stonework going forward on, say, the
fourth story, while the floors below
show only the iron skeleton?”
“There are various reasons for that.
Nearly always there are huge boilers,
engines, pumps and the like which
must be put in before the ground floor
stonework begins, Sometimes there is
delay in the dellvery, so we start the
stonemasons in at some story above.
This is easy enough, as all the loads
have been computed long before. Then,
again, the floor beams of one story |
may reach us sooner than those of an- |
other, so we put the masons on that
story, or perhaps there is much carv-
ing to be done on a third story stone
coping and little on the second. So as
not to delay this we jump the stone-
masons from the first to the third
story.
“You see,” pursued the expert, “the
plan, idealized, is to keep the stonema-
sons, housesmiths and plumbers one
floor behind the ironworkers, the car-
penters one floor behind these, the
piasterers one floor behind the car-
penters, and so on till the top story is
finished.”
“Would it be possible to erect a
twenty-four story building in the old
way of brick and stone construction?’
asked the reporter.
“Possible, yes, but it would take so
long that in these days of quick for-
tune building the proposition would be
commercially absurd. You can't as-
semble a stone or a brick building.
You've got to start at your foundations
and raise your walls to your first floor
before you can put in your girders and
beams, and so on to the top. Now, lay-
ing stone is a slow process, and by the
old method everything had to wait for
the masons and bricklayers. Today we
don’t have to wait for anything after
the caissons are sunk. We can keep all
hands busy, no matter how slowly an
individual part of the work may be
forced to progress. We can put on a
stone tower before we touch the stone-
work of the sidewalk floor.”
“Is an iron construction
safer than one of stone?"
“No, simply cheaper, but just as safe,
Another thing, too, saves time in mod-
ern building, and that is the abundance
of available labor. An ironworker who
is eapable of helping to rivet a big bat-
tleship together or assisting in tunnel!
or subway or bridge construction is
quite as much in his element when he
takes part in the assembling of a
great building. This fact of inter-
changeable labor makes it possible to
work at the very top limit of speed
when occasion requires. At the pres-
ent time we have one building under
way on which we employ 1,600 men
simultancously.
“As I said before, putting up a build-
ing today is just like making a mod-
ern watch. The various parts are made
separately, but to fit into each other to
a hair's breadth. These are turned
over to the skilled mechanic, who sim-
ply puts them together — assembles
them.”—New York Herald.
building
Husband Tore Body of Wife's Para:
mour to Pieces With a Pick.
‘Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,, March 18.—John
Boshus, aged 30, a Russian, was bru-
tally murdered at Brockside, & suburb
of this city, by Petro Komieck, aged 33,
a Pole. Komieck came home about
midnight and found Boshus with Mrs.
Komieck. The enraged husband se-
cured his mining pick and literally tore
Boshus to pieces with the pick. When
life was extinct he dragged the body
to Mill Creek nearby, and threw it into
the stream. The murder was not dis-
covered until the body of Boshus was
found by the crew of a trolley car. In
the meantime the murderer had es-
caped.
Six Dead In Virginia Mine.
Bristol, Va., March 18. — Advices
from Tacoma, Va., are that six persons
are positively known to have lost their
lives In the explosion which wrecked
the coal mine of Bruce & Bond, near
that place, Saturday. Owing to the
mass of slate blocking the entrance to
one portion of the mine that portion
has not yet been reached by the res-
cuers, and it is the impression at Ta-
coma that as many as six other miners
may be entombed.
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